1.   An ironic result of the highly effective new drug treatments is that Americans are beginning to relax safe-sex behavior, Gayle said.

2.   Abolishing affirmative action has the ironic result of excluding students who can do the work.

3.   One of the ironic results of all this engineering has been to aggravate the most severe coastal erosion in the United States.

4.   Such a merger of the traditional foes could have the ironic result of pushing both Kohl and Schroeder out of the chancellor picture.

5.   That would be an ironic result of a crisis over how to reduce government spending.